basement
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A basement is the floor or level of a building located below ground level, commonly used for storage, utilities, or other purposes. Basements matter because they provide additional usable space in buildings and can serve practical functions like housing mechanical systems or offering extra room for activities and storage.
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19 sectionsContents
- Purpose, geography, and history
- Types
- English basement
- Walk-out basement
- Subbasement
- Finished fully underground cellar
- Underground crawl space
- Design and structural considerations
- Drainage considerations
- Basement culture and finishings
- Unfinished basement
- Finished basement
- Partially finished basement
- Fully finished basement – retro fit
- Use in hospitals
- Real estate floorspace measures
- See also
- References
- External links
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A basement is any floor of a building that is not above the grade plane. Especially in residential buildings, it often is used as a utility space for a building, where such items as the furnace, water heater, breaker panel or fuse box, car park, and air-conditioning system are located; so also are amenities such as the electrical system and cable television distribution point. In cities with high property prices, such as London, basements are often fitted out to a high standard and used as living space.